I've known people to work two part-time jobs which work out to one full-time job, but you'll have to be lucky with the scheduling to make that happen neatly.
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Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
There's a guy who works part-time in the same store as me, on top of a full-time job elsewhere. I think he may actually have died several weeks ago, but is too worn out to realise it.
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
I once saw a lecture on youtube. It included a professor who had written a biology textbook for high school or something and creationists had splattered a big, yellow label across it, noting that "some of the chapters in this book should be taken with a grain of salt as they are THEORIES and not FACTS" or something. The professor was called by a journalist who asked what he thought about it, and he had smirked and said that it was perfectly fine (contrary to the journalist's hope for sensationalism); infact, the professor thought that the stickers had not went far enough and then he spends an awesome thirty minutes minimum explaining the class the difference between scientific theory and scientific fact, and why this was implicitly a creationist fallacy and showcase of ignorance as they clearly don't get the scientific method.
I can't find it. Can you please help me? Googling "evolution is a theory, not a fact" it just spams me with a bunch of ******** creationsim
I can't find it. Can you please help me? Googling "evolution is a theory, not a fact" it just spams me with a bunch of ******** creationsim
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
Are there any tables or lists similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude#Table_of_notable_celestial_objects
That lists Earth-based sources of light for easier comparisons? I mean, how the hell am I supposed to visualize or imagine in my head what the Sun looks like from Neptune with nothing to compare it with?
That lists Earth-based sources of light for easier comparisons? I mean, how the hell am I supposed to visualize or imagine in my head what the Sun looks like from Neptune with nothing to compare it with?
I'm not quite sure how the scale works, but you do have the apparent magnitude of the Sun as seen from Earth. That should be a start.
Wolfram Alpha is a good start, it gives you a number of comparisons when you enter a value.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-19+apparent+magnitude
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
Odd. Last time I tried it, it refused to provide the comparisons, citing its damned paywall.
Also, it's gonna need something other than the 100 w lightbulb, since they're no longer being made here. Damned politicians.
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
It does say -19 is the sun on a overcast day, but I've no clue what they mean by that. Does it mean when the sun is completely hidden by clouds, or when it is a super-fuzzy white spot in the clouds?
sophie
Break My Heart
It's certainly possible - my gf worked 2 part-time jobs in addition to attending school full time last spring.
Farm Boy
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I've done it before. The year before I got married I decided I wanted to kill my outstanding educational loans and build up some cash. Worked 11PM - 7AM Monday-Friday. Worked 8AM - 2:30PM Tuesday-Thursday. Worked 2 hours each weekend cleaning a library, worked 8AM-5PM Saturday/Sunday during Fall orchard season, worked weekends outside of orchard season for Dad, and substitute taught for the local school district from 8AM-3:30PM on Monday/Tuesday when they happened to call. Wouldn't have worked if I wasn't living at home and my parents weren't taking care of everything from laundry to food.
Long story short, yes, you can do it. It sucks. A lot. I took a week off of everything to go skiing in the middle of that. On the 3rd day I felt really really weird and was worried until I figured out that the odd sensation I was experiencing was that I wasn't exhausted. Do not particularly recommend for extended periods of time.
Long story short, yes, you can do it. It sucks. A lot. I took a week off of everything to go skiing in the middle of that. On the 3rd day I felt really really weird and was worried until I figured out that the odd sensation I was experiencing was that I wasn't exhausted. Do not particularly recommend for extended periods of time.
Kennigit
proud 2 boxer
the daily show media player sucks. How do I fix it?
It frequently glitches out, like so:
I recently had my computer restored (everything should be the same though), but it did this in the past when using firefox but not chrome; I figured it was probably something with ad block or other addons for my browser.
Now it does it across all browsers so is it some dumb java issue? All of that should be up to date.
It frequently glitches out, like so:
I recently had my computer restored (everything should be the same though), but it did this in the past when using firefox but not chrome; I figured it was probably something with ad block or other addons for my browser.
Now it does it across all browsers so is it some dumb java issue? All of that should be up to date.
KMRblue1027
Deity
The Daily Shows website and it's video player especially is very very poor. Constant low volume for no reason, video dropouts so you have to refresh the page, and an auto-quality detector that is practically schizophrenic.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
It (and videos on Hulu.com too) seem to do that to me if I watch multiple videos in a row, or leave it playing long enough while doing something else in a different tab.
I can usually fix it by closing that tab (or the whole browser) and coming back. Merely reloading the tab sometimes works, but seems less reliable. The Video Resumer plugin for Firefox usually, but not always, lets be start back where I was without waiting through all of the commercials.
I can usually fix it by closing that tab (or the whole browser) and coming back. Merely reloading the tab sometimes works, but seems less reliable. The Video Resumer plugin for Firefox usually, but not always, lets be start back where I was without waiting through all of the commercials.
Kennigit
proud 2 boxer
See I know that the video player sucks, but I don't readily see the internet posting about it. Which is pretty unusual, considering the internet watches plenty of the daily show.
Simple google searches involving various things like daily show media [or video] player crashes/glitches/freeze/sucks gets old posts of people with unrelated problems, or such things as a circa 2010 facebook page about comedy central's video players sucking in general.
I would have imagined more results if a media player has blatant issues (as compared to some thread that is at the top, I think "daily show" "media player" crash, which is some person complaining about firefox crashing in general, a separate problem).
instead no real google results.
edit-- actually I had hardware acceleration for the flash player still checked [that causes/caused problems a few years ago on youtube/other video players where audio would load but not the video], but I know in the past when I still had this problem I would have had it off. That may restore it back to the way I had it before, but that doesn't fundamentally explain anything to me. Although I'm not a coder/web developer or anything.
Simple google searches involving various things like daily show media [or video] player crashes/glitches/freeze/sucks gets old posts of people with unrelated problems, or such things as a circa 2010 facebook page about comedy central's video players sucking in general.
I would have imagined more results if a media player has blatant issues (as compared to some thread that is at the top, I think "daily show" "media player" crash, which is some person complaining about firefox crashing in general, a separate problem).
instead no real google results.
edit-- actually I had hardware acceleration for the flash player still checked [that causes/caused problems a few years ago on youtube/other video players where audio would load but not the video], but I know in the past when I still had this problem I would have had it off. That may restore it back to the way I had it before, but that doesn't fundamentally explain anything to me. Although I'm not a coder/web developer or anything.
Why the hell did cable news networks spend days of coverage on the poop cruise ship but they can't be bothered to spend even one hour on the chemical spill in West Virginia that has affected a hundred times as many people!?
FAKE EDIT: Never mind, figured it out--they are incompetent and in the pockets of certain industries.
FAKE EDIT: Never mind, figured it out--they are incompetent and in the pockets of certain industries.
Farm Boy
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Not sure being on the take is incompetence.
It's less sensational would be my real guess. When you report on this you are kinda expected to cover the nitty gritty of actual governance and safety, how to flush your water, when to flush your water, what the health concerns are. You know, boring details unless it's actually pertaining to you. Now, SHIP FILLED WITH POO! PEOPLE COVERED IN POO! FLOATING POO RAFT! Them thar's some headlines. Maybe they could take a picture of a toddler covered in water and a rescue worker gently dabbing him/her off, that might make the story.
It's less sensational would be my real guess. When you report on this you are kinda expected to cover the nitty gritty of actual governance and safety, how to flush your water, when to flush your water, what the health concerns are. You know, boring details unless it's actually pertaining to you. Now, SHIP FILLED WITH POO! PEOPLE COVERED IN POO! FLOATING POO RAFT! Them thar's some headlines. Maybe they could take a picture of a toddler covered in water and a rescue worker gently dabbing him/her off, that might make the story.
Quackers
The Frog
If you choose to only marry within your faith, is that bigotry?
caketastydelish
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I have a playstation 4 and while I'll eventually need to just buy a new TV, for the time being would it be better to buy an adapter (to hook my PS4 up to my iMac computer) or to just buy a relatively inexpensive HDTV, somewhere within the 250-400 price range? Keep in mind it will be at least two months until I buy the TV, and the iMac itself is three years old.
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